Chapter 167: 167 The Grand Event Approaches

During his sparring session with Buleidun, Luoning sensed the boy's extraordinary natural talent.

The guy was only thirteen years old, yet the strength and swordsmanship he displayed were already quite impressive.

Fortunately, thanks to the fact that Luoning had been learning swordsmanship from Maiken and Ruidar these past few days, he now had considerable accomplishments in both defense and rapid attacks.

Thus, during the sparring, he completely suppressed Buleidun.

He could tell that Buleidun was very passionate about cultivation.

Even when suppressed, the other party did not show the slightest bit of annoyance or anger; on the contrary, after the sparring, he even singled out the areas where he performed poorly to ask for advice.

Luoning did not hold back when it came to offering guidance; he was not worried about cultivating a formidable rival for himself in the future.

Precisely because of this, Buleidun felt genuine guidance and care from Luoning, and his understanding, gratitude, and recognition of Luoning increased rapidly during this sparring session.

"Hi, Luoning, good morning."

Blanche's figure appeared outside the courtyard gate, just in time to see Luoning and Buleidun holding their swords and exchanging pointers. "What are you two brothers doing here?"

"Good morning, Blanche."

"Good morning, Your Highness Princess!"

The brothers exchanged greetings, and Buleidun hurriedly replied, "Luoning is guiding me in sword practice. Your Highness Princess, my brother's strength is truly very powerful; it makes me admire him greatly!"

Blanche found it a bit strange; she had not expected the relationship between these brothers to look so good. After learning about Luoning's past experiences, she had thought he disliked Buleidun.

"Luoning is indeed the most powerful Knight among the younger generation that I have ever seen," she said sincerely.

Buleidun perhaps knew he should not continue to stay here and be a nuisance, so he scratched his head. "Your Highness Princess, Brother, you two chat; I still have things to attend to, so I will take my leave first."

As he spoke, he handed the longsword back to Tangmu, then walked quickly out of the courtyard, and Tangmu also took the opportunity to stand outside the gate.

Knight Mixi secretly sized up this masked Knight, guessing Tangmu's strength in his heart, feeling that a character with this look should not be simple; the Maiken from yesterday was just like that.

In the courtyard, Luoning invited Blanche into the house and had the servant attending to him bring a cup of morning tea for the Princess.

"How are you feeling today?" Blanche asked with concern.

To have a Princess come over in person early in the morning to show concern and ask after him, one could see the weight Luoning held in her heart.

"I recovered long ago; I feel refreshed and clear-headed now."

Luoning looked at her; Blanche had changed into a relatively fresh long dress today, which looked less solemn and more youthful and vibrant than yesterday.

"Blanche, this long dress is nice; you look even more attractive than yesterday."

Facing such a direct compliment, Blanche's cheeks flushed slightly. She stood up, held the hem of her skirt, and spun around. "Really? Do you like this style?"

Luoning nodded. "I prefer a relaxed, casual style; it looks more energetic."

Blanche noted this down; when she returned to the Wangong, she would need to prepare more clothes in this style.

The two chatted for a while longer. As the host, Luoning still had to accompany Blanche around to have fun today, but the other party had no intention of sightseeing today and only wanted to walk around the castle with Luoning.

After all, Wushan Castle had mountains and water, and it covered a large area.

While the two were talking, others came over as well.

Luogena, the siblings Marina and Malike, the elder sister Maijinni, as well as Jiemi, the son of Viscount Dennis of Jianjiao City, and others.

There were quite a few people Luoning had never seen before, but they all came over to exchange a few words with Luoning in the name of "visiting a hero," which counted as showing their faces.

In reality, after Luoning's strength was exposed, many people were speculating about the future direction of Wushan Castle. Their relationship with Luoning might not have been very good before, but that did not prevent them from interacting more now.

Even if the succession rights to the Wushan Territory remained in Buleidun's hands in the future, it would not prevent them from becoming friends with Luoning.

This scene brought to Luoning the feeling of "no one asks about you during ten years of hard study, but once you become famous, the whole world knows you."

After sending these people off, Luoning entered his leisure time again. He took Blanche for a walk in the back mountain of the castle, but because of the presence of the Thunder Chasing Beast, they did not go deep inside.

In the afternoon, Maiken brought back the latest investigation results.

Last night, he had already brought Luoning's speculation about the green-skinned giant to Tolu, asking him to investigate along this clue.

However, the outcome was still unsatisfactory.

The Wushancheng Doushouchang would bring in some strange and bizarre Magic Beasts every year to attract attention; although the investment in transportation was high, the high admission fees could make up for a lot.

This green-skinned giant had long been set as the grand finale for the last beast fight of the year; this was something decided long ago, and Tolu did not find anything suspicious after investigating.

This also meant that this assassination incident had now reached a dead end; unless the Golden Grade assassin who escaped was found, it would be difficult to have a result.

Although it sounded unbelievable, Wushan City did not have strict entry and exit control measures, and for a Golden Knight, even if they did not use the city gates, they had all sorts of ways to leave.

"You don't need to worry so much about investigating this matter."

Blanche, who was at his side, comforted him, "Actually, there have been many assassination attempts on the royal family throughout history, and more than half of them never found the mastermind behind them."

People at the center of power are more or less involved in the interests of all parties.

Take Blanche for example; although she was not a prince and rarely participated in political affairs, this did not prevent others from using her identity to achieve certain goals.

"You certainly have a very open mind about it."

In further conversation, Luoning felt the other party's peace of mind.

However, just because Blanche was not paying attention to this matter did not mean no one else was.

Hesusu and the others were still watching; if Wushan Castle could not provide a satisfactory explanation, he would stir up trouble, at least being able to use this incident to disrupt the marriage alliance between Lulansi and Bruno.

Luoning could not help but think of the discussion last night with Lulansi regarding the disposal of Leisen of the Sain Territory; that scapegoat would likely not be able to escape.

Pushing the assassination incident onto the Skull Society and then implicating Leisen was considered relatively reasonable.

As for how Leisen made contact with the Skull Society, that matter would need to be investigated and interrogated by professional personnel from Wushan Castle and the Auduin Royal Family.

Luoning could not help but think of Huitu Village and the Heiling Tribe.

Once Leisen was finished, Feilidun and the others who followed him would inevitably be implicated, and imprisonment was certainly unavoidable.

In order to survive, this group of people might also burrow into the woodlands and become a new tribe of wild people.

Therefore, this battle with the Heiling Tribe had to continue.

This battle was also Luoning's test of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of Shanlin Town; an army that had not been bathed in blood and fire and had coasted to victory all the way could not possibly possess powerful real-combat capabilities.

"Soon, within these next two days, the Sain Territory will be finished."

It is said that Sain Territory has a population of nearly ten thousand; if Luoning were to completely swallow it up, he reckons he would eat until he became a fat man.

(End of chapter)